(sola)s hattiesburg

This thursday night we will take a break from our normal routine to fellowship together and watch the USM vs. USC football game. Everyone (including those who attend William Carey, Jones, PRCC, or who could care less about football) is invited over to the Slusher’s house to watch the game and hang out. Snacks and drinks will be provided, but please eat before you come.

The game starts at 6:30 p.m. CT, so come on over around 6:15 p.m. or show up when you can.

If you would like to meet at the West Campus and caravan over to the Slusher’s, meet in the student parking lot by 6:00 p.m. (For directions to West Campus, go here). Since there is limited parking space, this is a good idea. We will have a van that you can load up and ride together in, but it will be leaving promptly at 6:10 p.m. So if this is your plan, don’t be late!

If you want to meet us at the Slusher’s house, they live at 27 Buckingham St., Hattiesburg, MS 39402. If you have any questions, call us at 450-3065. See you Thursday.

So we’re in the middle of a series called INVEST: Your Life is Currency. In this series we are seeking to ask questions concerning how we are investing our lives. How are our time, money, relationships, and talents being used? Are they going toward kingdom advancement? Or are they being wasted on this temporal life?

I just finished listening to Dr. Moore’s sermon A Letter From Jericho: God, Neighbor, and the Questions We Ask and it falls perfectly in line with our current series. It exposes how we often seek to justify our selfishness and how we fail to truly live the life that Christ calls us to. This talk is worth a listen…or two.

Last week we began a series called “INVEST: Your Life Is Currency”. In this study we are exploring the reality that our life is full of capital – we all have time, money, relationships, and talents; and we all must spend them on something. The question, then, is, what are we investing our lives in? How are we spending the capital we have?

Jesus taught in Matthew 6:19-24 that we should store up (literally “treasure”) heavenly treasures, and not earthly treasures. In other words, we should invest our lives in things that are eternal and not in things that are temporal and fleeting. He summed it up in verse 33 when he said, “Seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness.”  So the question for us through this series is, “Am I seeking God’s kingdom or another kingdom?” And the way to discern the answer to this question is to investigate how we are making use of our time, money, relationships, and talents.  

This week we will explore the capital of time. How are you investing the time you are allotted each day? James 4:14 reminds us that “Life is a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.” Life is short; we best not waste the little time we have. The apostle Paul challenged the Ephesians to make “the best use of the time,” and this is my prayer for us as well – that our time would be spent on what is most important. Answering how we do this and what this looks like is what we will explore Thursday night. See you then.